On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Yaron wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > >> I was wondering. I didn't see anything about it in the BIOS, but yes >> there is a VGA output. That makes me think there's a jumper somewhere. > > Jumper? This is 2011! Your BIOS should have a thing saying which display > to initialise first, the internal or a PCI-E or something. That might > help... sadly there's usually no way to DISABLE the internal display > alltogether. Like I said, I couldn't find anything in the BIOS about displays. I guess it is in there somewhere using some kind of tricky language that I don't understand. I'll look into it. > When you're in text mode, it usually goes to all connected monitors. But > when you switch to graphics you have to tell X which card to use. It does show a splash screen at one point before going to text-based console mode, strangely. I thought it was a graphic with a shaded background, but maybe not. > Honestly unless you're doing high-powered 3D graphics you might be fine > just removing your video card and using the internal one. If not though > you might want to connect your monitor to that one temporarily and use > Gnome's display manager thing to tell it to use the other card. > > (also, perfect time to get a second monitor!) No, no, no... I'm using a dual DVI card with one 1680x1050 monitor and the second converted to HDMI and going to my 1080p HDTV. I can't go back to VGA now that I'm addicted to this. ;-) Mike